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Military service
Service number:
H/33139
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
July 29, 1920
Hearst, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 5, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of George Charles and Gertrude Constance West, of Hearst, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Charles Harvey West
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Brookwood Memorial
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Brookwood Memorial
This panel from the Brookwood Memorial lists the names of nine members the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada who took part in the Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942. Sergeant Leslie Harold Pratt and Privates John Graham, George Ernest Little, Bernard Schacht, Sidney Frederick Sutton, Bennett Vincent Warne, and George Charles Harvey West are reported to have been killed on August 19, 1942. Private Victor Horton is reported to have died on August 21, 1942. Private Victor William Aitken who was reported missing after the raid is reported to have died on March 3, 1945, and presumably survived the raid. That these soldiers are commemorated at this memorial indicates their bodies were never recovered or their graves could not, for some reason, be marked and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. -
Photo of George West
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Memorial
George Charles Harvey West's name is engraved on the headstone for his parents in Cedar Vale Cemetery, Cannington, Brock Twp., Durham Region, Ontario. Photo taken by Roger Shier, June 18, 2016
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Harvey West
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Harvey West
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Harvey West
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Harvey West
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 123 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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